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r. n.s 81. q.
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day evening the largest audience
ever gathered in that building
since the Socialists of Denver
commenced holding meetings
there.
The interest in the case of the
seven martyrs Of the police con-
soiracy was the cause Of bringing
out large number Of strangers
who we're anxious to hear the
views Of the radicals of this city
on the question.
Henry Cohen opened the meet
ing by givingextracts from several
legal authorities on the case OF
the so.ealled anarchists. A Chi
cago legal journal furnished the
necessary points to show that the
men could not have had a fair
trial. 1t was utterly impossible
for men to receive justice at the
hands Of a jury constituted as the
anarchist" Jury was.
Comrade Cohen read and CON-
mented on the utterances of pub
lie journals during the agitation
carried on by Phillips. Garrison,
pillsbury and the other anti-sla-
very agitators who received. the
speaker said, more vili6cation and
abuse than do the social agitators
of to-day.
Reverting to the action of the
supreme court in the labor agita-
tors cases the speaker showed
that the courts have always. in
cases where vital principles as re-
CARDS the rights of the common
heard we're involved, invariably
sided with the wealthy and power
full The Dred Scott case was a
fitting example ofthe subserviency
OF the courts to the money-power.
Denis M. Leahy commented on
the article read from the the
Legal Advisey, a law journal
published in Chicago. The speak
er reviewed briefly a few of the
most pertinent points regarding
the Haymarket police riot and
proved that, as admitted by the
O mayor Of Chicago, the meeting
was an orderly and peaceable one;
Notwithstanding this the police
raided the meeting and some per-
son in self-defense killed police
man. If the meeting was being
conducted peaceably and within
the law and constitution then the
man who threw the bomb did so
within the law which guarantees
him the right to protect himself
from personal attack and bodily
harm. Comrade Leahy paid a
splendid tribute to the menin pris-
on and who are destined it seemsto
offer up their lives for the sake of
the betterment oftheir fellowmen's
condition. THE men," concluded
the speaker, will die as becomes
heroes; their slaughter will not
check the onward march of a
peoples progress; on the con-
trary il will oil the machinery OF
the revolution. Our martyrs cpl
taphs will be: THEY LOVED THEIR
FELLowMEN!'"
Arthur Cheesewright, by re-
quest, sang "A Shout of Protest.
the audience swelling the chorus
to such pitch that it caused the
caitalist-press reporter to erase
more than half the lies he had
written about the utter apathy
and lack of enthusiasm on the
part of the audience"
Frederick Schuler reviewed at
ength the facts regarding the
Haymarket police outrage. 1t
had been charged by the prosecu-
ton that it was a conspiracy yet
the principal to the commission OF
the crime, the man who threw the
bomb in the Haymarket, has
never been discovered. The
courts had established this as a
dangerous precedent: that it is
not necessary to prove, when try
ing labor agitator for speaking